Back in February to August 1993, I was an Apple rep through their temp agency, Aida. I'd do the exact same thing covering southwest and central Virginia, mostly Montgomery Wards and Sears stores. I don't remember the pay, but I do remember I got much more in mileage reimbursement than the actual on-site maintenance. I went out once a month I believe.
(off-topic) Quote: "if only people lived at the North Pole"
What about Santa Claus and his helpers?
Why are you looking at me that way? What do you mean, there is something you need to tell me?
Your article is clipped off at the end.
You have your second monitor to the left of your main screen? How odd. Are you left handed? I've tried that and it just doesn't work for me, I have to have the second monitor to the right of my Powerbook.
You can get three years of "Software Maintenance" for most Apple software. In the Apple Store, click on Small Business under "More Stores" on the right; then click on "Software Maintenance" under "Business Services." It's not easy to find, but it's there.
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (ABC Sunday nights in the US) usually gives the family on vacation a Powerbook to use to see the construction going on at home. But the Apple logo on the lid is almost always covered with a Extreme Makeover sticker. It's kind of obvious it's a Mac though. The case is very distinctive, and the iSight camera mounted on top is hard to hide.
How about sponsoring a contest, where we Mac faithful have to create a 30 second Apple ad? Or even better, we have to create a complete campaign? (30 second radio spot, 30 second tv spot, full page newspaper ad, and web banner ad)
My list is at http://www.planetmike.com/blog/technology/osx-tiger/menubar01.shtml . I added Fuzzy Clock a few days ago, from http://www.objectpark.org/FuzzyClock.html.
The same thing is playing out in the new and used car field. Customers shopping for a car should know how the proces are running in the local market. And yet every time I go to a real world car dealer they treat me like I'm an idiot. I hate shopping for a car.
Must haves for any system:
1. Quicksilver, from Blacktree. http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/
2. SubEthaEdit, from Coding Monkeys. http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/
Even comparisons in magazines will be of less value, since they will be comparing old programs. And tutorials will be useful, but since I can find a tutorial more quickly with a web search engine, magazines will be shorted again. The Zinio version of MacWorld I thought would be very useful, but when I need to find something in a past issue, I use (search engine of choice here) to find the article on the MacWorld web site. A straight PDF of Macworld would be nice, instead of the DRM version that Zinio provides.
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